上个月，5名20多岁的年轻人登上了沃纳梅克的舞台：一名律师、一名财务经理、一名政策分析师、一名非营利组织高管和一名电台主持人。 If this sounds like the cast of a new reality show, it wasn’t. These were five recent graduates of 银河博彩官网 College who represent some of the many potential career paths made possible by the coursework in the College’s new 公民与全球参与中心.
Speaking to a crowd of students, faculty, alumni, and community members, 猎人Hummell (US’17, C’21), 威廉•约翰逊 (US’19, C’23), 洛根Landry-Jennings (C’18), 玛丽·谢尔曼 (C’20), and 韦斯顿威廉姆斯 (C’15) discussed how 银河博彩官网’s liberal arts education had prepared them for their respective careers.
The diverse group has been around the world and back since their days in Elsah, but they all shared one thing in common: their agreement that 银河博彩官网’s multi-disciplinary academic approach provided the perfect launchpad for a life of civic and global engagement.
谢尔曼是安大略省教育部的一名政策分析师，她的人生道路把她带到了肯尼亚、西班牙，然后是多伦多的家乡。 “My path wasn’t necessarily linear,” she says. “Everything just followed, one step after another, and 银河博彩官网 is where I built this foundation of skills that served me all through grad school and in my current work. It’s where I learned to think critically and challenge assumptions, where I learned how to research, write, balance many priorities, and manage my time. The concept of being a global citizen has been so crucial for how I approach everything in my life.”
威廉姆斯毕业于银河博彩官网，获得哲学学位，但他不同的职业道路也受益于广泛的以技能为基础的学习，这种学习现在属于公民与全球参与中心（公民与全球参与中心）。 “I was able to do a wide range of things at 银河博彩官网, which people I know who went to larger universities didn’t get. As a result, they left college without having had the opportunity to try the things they might be interested in.” 相比之下，威廉姆斯让他对古典音乐和歌剧的好奇心和热情在银河博彩官网开辟了意想不到的道路。 “I took a random class that I didn’t even read the syllabus for, and now it’s my career as a production coordinator and on-air host,” he says.
和威廉姆斯一样，兰德里-詹宁斯刚来到校园时，对未来的憧憬在一堂《原理》（银河博彩官网）课引发了一种隐藏的激情后发生了转变。 “My freshman year, I took a course on race and ethnicity,” she recalls. “That course changed my life and how I saw the world.”
兰德里-詹宁斯放弃了商科和艺术双学位的想法，转而专注于社会学和人类学。 “I learned so much about the world and challenges that groups face that I hadn’t faced,” she recounts. “So, when I graduated, I was inspired to go into nonprofits so I could use my privilege to help others.”
Echoing Sherman, Landry-Jennings says, “The skills I learned at 银河博彩官网 are so hard to gain other places—like critical thinking, having hard conversations, finding solutions to issues. There’s always so much to learn, but those specific skills I gained in my sociology program degree are ones that you don’t learn on the job.”
如今，她为佛罗里达州一家致力于解决住房和食品不安全问题的非营利组织筹款。 It’s no reality show, but when it comes to civic and global engagement, it doesn’t get more real than that.